Hospital Expansion

September 27, 1987

ATLANTIC SHORES Hospital, 841 Jimmy Ann Drive, Daytona Beach, has received permission from the state Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services to add 10 beds for youths with alcohol or drug dependencies.

Atlantic is a 50-bed psychiatric facility for children and adolescents. It is owned and operated by Healthcare Services of America Inc., Birmingham, Ala. The hospital has a year to break ground on its 7,000-square-foot addition to the 35,000-square-foot facility. No date has been set for the start of construction, said Irving B. Sawyers Jr., hospital administrator.